Sanju Samson declined a single on 2nd last ball. Was it right?

Morris can hit as he has 154 strike rate in IPL. And he just had to get 4 but not taking the run they got to 1 ball 5 runs needed.

Sanju played well after being dropped couple of time and made the opposition pay.

Well what do you think?

Chris Morris faced 4 balls and scored 2 runs. Had he utilized the 2 extra dot balls the game would've been RR's but he didn't at that time and rightly so Sanju felt that he would do it for the team but alas!

Most will say Yes. Because When you are in a flow you start timing the balls. Sanju wasn't wrong and hit a shot well. He was fooled by the bowler and his guts to bowl a slow ball.

Also youngsters follow legends. MS made this not taking single style and finishing it off famous. many try it and some fail and some succeed.

BUT morris isn't some idiot hack. he is a fantastic six hitter. Sanju should know it better because he played with him in DD too.

Next time sanju wont let it go this far and try finish it before last over.

There was a very famous quote by someone (Most likely by MS but not sure). In the last over while chasing 10+ The bowler is under more pressure than the batsman because bowler going for 10+ is very bad. If the bowler can handle it he wins, if not the batsman wins.

I think they should have ran two instead of just one as the throw from the fielder was very wide .

I remember when we lost a T20 match against England by 3 runs, it was MSD who was refusing the singles and Ambati Rayudu was at the non-striker end and the whole blame went to MSD.

But in this case , had it not been Sanju's innings the match wouldn't have been that closer . He scored almost 60% of total runs today , so it was a good innings but hard luck on him that he couldn't win it for RR.

There's no right or wrong here, but if they had run, it would've anyway have been a single. Which would've left Morris a four to win the match.

With 5 to win off 1, Samson knew a four would tie the game, and a six would win it.

Morris has pedigree, but neither he nor Tewatia were looking like they'd get the ball out of the park.

It probably came down to who Samson thought was better equipped to hit a four, and he backed himself against Arshdeep, having hit a six against him in the same over.

It's one of those things- you get it right, you're a hero; you don't, you become a villain.

I personally don't blame Samson though- he took responsibility as the captain and as the in-form batsman, but this game is one of small margins. Unfortunately for him, it didn't come off today.

Sanju should have taken that single, Morris has ability to hit a 4 or 6. Samson what an inning but his inning didnt make der team win so all went to drain